BUSINESS WEEK AND SIMPLY HIRED PARTNER Bad News?

The previously, almost cult-like job search resource, job search engines, just went mainstream. Business Week is now partnered with Simply Hired to provide, on the magazine’s site, instant access to job listings. While this is good news for Business Week, Simply Hired, job boards and recruiters the extensive outreach to a large employment pool is not good news for candidates.

Those of you already familiar with job search engines appreciate their job aggregating nature as a fast way to discover employers. Many entries are not associated with job boards or recruiters and give you direct access to hiring companies; always the best approach for an effective job search.

With the partnering of Business Week and Simply Hired, the value of this tool has been compromised. Their press release tells the tale: “BusinessWeek attracts an audience of 4.9 million readers, who on average make almost $100,000 a year, mostly in professional and managerial positions. By integrating job content into the site, employers can reach this audience of highly qualified…candidates.”

Where once you had a cozy web site to browse for local job opportunities, you now have competition for those jobs based on 4.9 readers.

One of the more endearing features of Simply Hired has always been listings not associated with recruiters or job boards. Candidates could locate jobs, find a referral from their network and pursue the opportunity in a first class, professional manner with direct contact. With global exposure, many companies with direct contact information will be inundated with responses forcing them to use job boards and recruiters as filters. And most executives and technology leaders know, Job Boards Don’t Work.

Both new partners can boast about the number of listings and perhaps even the number of hits, but the quality of the information has been rendered almost useless for the technology professional or executive candidate because the exposure means significantly more competition for any one job.

Do take a look and add your own comments. I don’t deny I could have missed something.
The Job Coach
http://www.jobsearchdebugged.com